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Eva Kushner is a Canadian scholar of Comparative and French, Renaissance, and Canadian literature. She was the President of Victoria University in 1987. In 1997, she was made an officer of the Order of Canada. She was the first woman to be a university president in Ontario.
Biography
Eva Kushner (Dubska) was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia on June 18, 1929. She lived in France between from 1939 until moving to Canada in 1946.
In 1949, she married Donn Kushner.
Kushner attended McGill University and obtained a B.A. in Philosophy and Psychology in 1948. In 1956, she obtained a Ph.D. in French Literature. Professor Kushner became President of Victoria University in 1987 and held that position until 1994.
In 1997, the Canadian government awarded gave her the Order of Canada award.